吃
chī
1) eat
2) eat in/at
吃饭馆 eat at a restaurant
3) have a meal
你吃了吗？ Have you eaten?
4) live on
这碗饭可不容易吃。 This is a hard way to earn a living.
5) annihilate; wipe out
炮吃马。 The cannon takes the horse (in chess).
6) absorb; soak up
7) suffer; incur
8) exhaust; be a strain